The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO
Policy Brief No. 15
by Rick Jonasse
August 2008
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Doha Collapse Won't Mean Suffering for The Poor
Analysis by Aileen Kwa
GENEVA, Aug 6 (IPS) - At the heart of the collapse of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round last week are the different opinions on liberalisation and its relation to development. Developed countries promote the idea that liberalisation will bring about development and thus that the failure of the Round constitutes a blow for the poor.
Immediately after the collapse of talks, ministers from the U.S., European Union (EU) and Australia made statements about the huge loss that the crash of the Doha Round would signify for the poor.
WTO Doha Collapse because of Failure to Deliver Development
South Centre Commentary on Collapse of Doha Talks
30 July 2008
The collapse of the Doha talks illustrated a clear lack of political will on the part of the developed countries to deliver on development. From the start, the developed countries were hearing but not actually listening to the development concerns the majority in the WTO have been voicing. This continued through the past week until it became untenable to bridge the differences.
Food First joins 20 labor, environmental, family farm and faith groups in supporting a just-introduced U.S. Trade Bill
Media Release
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First
202-288-8699
Opinion paper – La Via Campesina on Global Food Trade
Friday, 02 May 2008
by Henry Saragih,
International coordinator of La Via Campesina
As hunger riots erupt across the globe, world leaders such as Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are warning against the dangers of protectionism. According to Mr Ban, "More trade, not less, will get us out of the hole we're in."(1) Over the past decade, food has become a commodity on the world markets like any other good, such as motorcycles or cotton t-shirts.
Thousands of People Protest NAFTA and defend Food Sovereignty in Mexico
By Angie Rodriguez
On Thursday January 31st, thousands of people took the streets of Mexico City as part of the mobilization to demand the renegotiation of the agricultural chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement. In what was called March in Defense of Food Sovereignty, several labor unions, university students, teachers, civic organizations and members of the opposition parties, joined dozens of farmers organizations such as the National Confederation Of Farmers (CNC) and the National Union of Agricultural Workers to protest the elimination of trade barriers on corn imports.
Immigration, the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, and the Transformation of our Food and Fuel Systems
Immigration, the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, and the Transformation of our Food and Fuel Systems
The current immigration legislation attempts to balance the fears of a post-9/11 electorate with the management of the largest single migration in the modern history of the Americas. At this writing, this bill focuses on symptoms rather than causes and faces strong opposition from all sides.
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